Atheist Questions:Questions that challenge the paradigm of
Christianity
04/15/2018

"Just for a moment, imagine
that there really is a supreme being who created all things, including
the human race. Would he (or she or it) give you such a highly developed
brain and then punish you for using it?"

"Would the most advanced
life-form in the universe devise such grand concepts as DNA, nuclear
fusion, and quantum mechanics and then spend all eternity fussing about
whether you regularly sing to him, vote against gay marriage, or accept
on faith that Earth is only 6,000 years old when there is a mountain of
evidence to the contrary?"

Since God created these human
beings that seek him, endeavor to understand him, and seek to have a relationship
with him, shouldn't he have created them with the
potential to succeed at this?

Why would this god answer some
very trivial prayers and let millions of other praying humans be
captured, imprisoned, burned
at the stake, gassed, dismembered, disemboweled, decapitated, shot, and/or otherwise
tortured and killed?

Why are the Christian church's
leadership roles overwhelmingly the province of males, and yet the
congregations are about 60% female in composition?

Why did god design the female
sex structure to be between the two sewage outlets, where it would be
subject to a greater incidence of contamination and disease?

How can god legitimately say that his mercy
endures forever, when according to popular Christian belief he is going to burn people alive forever?

Why so many agents of disease,
such as parasites, fungus, bacteria, microbes, viruses, etc.

Why are we subject to so many
genetic and hereditary problems?

Why would God turn loose upon
rather helpless humans a vicious superior being like what the Devil is
thought to be?

Why does the human male sexual
interest and drive peak during his teenage years, long before he has a
chance of being ready for a benevolent relationship?

Why is the human habitat, the
earth, so prone to natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, hurricanes,
tornadoes, droughts, volcanoes, floods, intersecting comets and asteroids, etc.,
from which we can't protect ourselves?

Why would a caring, loving
merciful systems designer that eschews the suffering and destruction of
life forms create the violent predatory competition system of nature
know to be "red in tooth and tong"?

If the Bible is the vessel of
God's revelation to us, why is it so full of contradictions, enigmas and
translational errors?

Why did the vaunted Creator
create humans with needs and desires that cannot be realistically
fulfilled in our reality?